The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will send some of its women personnel on deputation to the Special Protection Group (SPG), as the agency informed all its units on May 6 while asking for nominations from those interested in the deputation.

SPG provides security to the PM and his immediate family, former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, and Sonia Gandhi and her children-Rahul and Priyanka.

The SPG, which has had two lady IPS officers at the post of assistant inspector general, will now be getting women personnel of the ranks of inspector, sub-inspector, head constable and constable on deputation from the CISF.

The CISF, which has nearly 5,000 women in its ranks posted for access control duties at airports and the Delhi Metro, has asked all its units to send nominations of women personnel below 35 years of age for deputation to the SPG.